First Day - 100 word count

Summer is out and school is back in

The first day has come and all were prepared

There were new teachers and friends to meet

And old ones from past years to greet

The first day is different than all of the rest

It’s exciting and special as each child will attest

Everything’s shiny and brand spanking new

Runners, notebooks, backpacks and pens

There are many questions to face and to answer

Some will be hard and some will be easy

But the first to be asked is always the same

How was your summer and what did you do?

Picture Day -Legislative Building

School's Out!

With Labor Day behind us, everyone with children of school age are now focused on the upcoming school year.  I, on the other hand, am finally done with my graduate level program and for the first time in over three years! I do not have any classes to concern myself with!

It was a family effort and I would not have my MBA without the support of Sarah and the help of Sarah's mom, who watched the girls many days and nights while I attended class or studied.  Thank you!

When I was in grade school, Alice Cooper's hit "School's Out" was popular and each year on the last day of school you could find me playing the 45 inch single on my record player:

School's out for the summerSchool's out foreverSchool's been blown to pieces
No more pencilsNo more booksNo more teacher'sDirty looks
Well, we got no classAnd we got no principalsWe ain't got no intelligenceWe can't even think of a word that rhymes...

My grades for the two summer sessions.  Considering my grades for undergrad, I'll take these!

MBA AF 611	Intermediate Acct'G	3.00	Graded	B+	9.900
MBA AF 621	Adv Corporate Financ	3.00	Graded	A-	11.100
MBAACM 682	Oral Communc Mngrs	3.00	Graded	A	12.000
MBAMGT 689	Strategic Management	3.00	Graded	A-	11.100

And a couple of pictures from the graduation, which was held back in June:

Digging a Well

We each have our own unique strengths, weaknesses and personalities.  What determines those very elemental things about us is hard to pinpoint.  Genetics, parenting, environment, life-style choices we’ve made, accidents which happen in our lives and simple twists of fate amongst the many contributing factors.

I like to think that we are each capable of whatever anyone else does and that if so determined we really can do anything.  We may not of course be inclined to pursue the same goals as others but it doesn’t mean that we couldn’t do these things if we so wanted.

It is how I think of creativity.  I believe inside each and every one of us there is a well of creativity.  It is up to us whether we pursue it or not.  Some would rather bury that well and excel in other areas while others continually dig at that well making it ever wider and deeper.

Creativity can be hard, I’ve struggled recently with many aspects of my creativity but in my heart feel that I have simply hit a rocky patch. The digging may have become more difficult but if I choose to persevere sooner or later I’m bound to hit water.  

I simply need to find the chink in the rock that bars my way and perhaps switch the shovel for a pickaxe.